Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner inSurbiton inSurbiton PUBLISHED THU 13 MAR 2025

We are looking for a Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join the South Kingston Integrated Recovery Hub (IRH). The South Kingston IRH provides secondary mental health care for adults experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

We are preparing to implement the trust's community transformation plans in line with the Community Mental Health Framework, to improve access and provision for clients with severe mental health difficulties. In doing so, we will be strengthening relationships with primary care and developing new links with the voluntary sector.

This is an exciting opportunity for an MHWP graduate to deliver a set of wellbeing-focused, psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are a teaching Trust so will support your continued professional growth throughout your career with us

The successful applicant will be committed to MDT working and to advancing trauma informed care across the trust. You will work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment. You will deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible and agile working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

The Trust is committed to supporting flexible working, including a blended approach of on-site and home working.

About us

1. Carry out relevant risk assessments and risk management with the multi-disciplinary team

2. Engage calmly and with sensitivity and empathy to support service users in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.

3. Engage with and gather information from service users, relatives and patient records to develop a formulation.

4. To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.

5. To attend multi-disciplinary reviews and act as a care co-ordinator, for a caseload of service users in order to support and monitor progress during the course of multi-disciplinary interventions.

6. To set collaborative goals for intervention with service users

7. To be responsive to service users needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.

8. To include carers and families in line with the service users wishes.

9. To liaise with other health and care providers, including third sector agencies and primary care, to ensure continuity of care for service users.

10. To communicate information concerning the assessment, formulation and care plans of service users in a skilled and sensitive manner in order to promote effective multi-disciplinary working and therapeutic outcomes for clients.

11. To develop collaborative plans for relapse prevention

12. To deal with endings appropriately and safely with service users, families and carers.